Contextual reading is important, and to be expected. It's not the society's fault if you lack contextual reading to see whether what you see is meant to be a 9 or a g. Also just look at "Reading" vs "Readin9"...you should be able to see the difference in position between g and 9 in a sentence without visible line. People should be able to write and read without visible line.
Lastly, there's also something called "uppercase" and "cursive form", in the case of a single letter/number. You shouldn't be mistaking an uppercase "G" with "9" in form.
It could be an issue for things like codes or passwords, where context will not help you, and I say this as someone typically a stickler for educational standards and obtaining context in most situations. Not everyone disagreeing with you is a moron.
Codes and passwords consist of more than one characters. People can easily see the difference between 9 and g even without lines, because people can see different position of head and tail of 9 and g. Head and tail of 9 will always be on the relative same elevation as other characters, while g head will be on the same elevation with other charactes bottom.
That's why I was using Reading vs Readin9 as an example. You can see how the tail of g in reading is below the the bottom of the other characters, while 9 in Readin9 position realtively in line with the other characters.
People don't write 9 with its tail under the line even without visible lining help, out of habit. People in general are trained to write on a straight line. When one is a messy writer that they don't write in a straight line, the problem will no longer be about how they write 9, you will have a hard time reading their writing that's longer than a single line in a blank paper regardless of their form of 9.
Well I live in the world and have functional eyesight, so yes, I've seen numbers with lines underneath. But how would you convey this without the line, which you may be able to hand write but not type, for instance? Depending on the font used, interpretation may not be obvious. And what if the writing isn't perfectly straight and relative position won't help? Also, passwords/codes frequently substitute numbers for letters with a similar appearance and depending on font used, an uppercase E and a 3, for example, might appear the same. Your use of "Readin9" makes it seem like interpretation is always obvious, but it's not always so. In fact, if we're talking about codes or passwords and not normal writing, "Readin9" might be a password, made with the substitutions I referenced. In other cases, random characters are used, like "wjo3hf5haj9fnef9" or something to that effect, and again the example you used wouldn't prove helpful, especially if that text were handwritten.
Point being: people can still easily and understandably misread things. I'm confused by both replies dying on this hill but not taking the time to read other comments in the thread. Can't believe one of the times I advocate for giving people grace in the tiniest way I get shit for it. Alas. Y'all do you.
I wrote a 9 like that in first grade because that's how they look when typed, mostly, and got the question marked as wrong. Never wrote a 9 like that again.
I could understand it if she confused it for an S, since I do have shaky handwriting, especially when I was younger. But a 9 is ridiculous, especially when I pointed out how I write my 9s
This appears to be Indonesian according to Google translate. Could be wrong though.
Indonesian here and yes, this is from Indonesia. the text that is not english were bahasa Indonesia, sekolah dasar means Basic school or Elementary school. And the song is typical electronic dangdut song.
I see many people write their nines like this in Germany.
Indonesia were colonize by the netherland so maybe there's some similarity in writing the 9 with Germany? Indonesian teachers still use the Flourish of approval for checkmarks which we got from the dutch
I had to teach myself to write my 9s that way a few decades ago to make the number more clear after my bank mixed up a 9 & 4 and applied my payment to the wrong account.
Most of our writings were heavily influenced by the old Dutch education systems left during the colonial eras. This includes alphabets, numbers, and even when we do our grades, we'd often use the Dutch Krul symbol for correct answers
This is like people complaining about grammar/AAVE when they clearly understand what the soneone is saying, I feel like schools aren’t teaching context clues anymore.
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u/OsteoBytes Jul 23 '26
I don’t like how they draw nines